We met at the home of Queen Madiba with 10 people:
Queen Madiba – Founding Class 1 teacher at the Sikhulise Waldorf School, Soweto in 1992 (now closed). Currently working at the Inkanyesi Waldorf School, Alexandra.
Mapule Tsolo – Also taught at Sikhulise and now at Inkanyesi
Ellen Mndende – Past student at Inkanyesi, now working at a travel agency handling timeshares
Reason Matshavha – Past student, Inkanyesi, working in another travel agency
Tshepo Madiba – Brother of Queen, past student of McGregor Waldorf, a community school in McGregor in the Western Cape.
Leticia Rheingantz, Jara von Lüpke, Jozefien Poppe, Eric Hurner.
Apologies from Thandi Hlatshwayo.
The meeting was to bring together a few people who had already heard about the idea of organising a Connectivity conference in South Africa, so that we could find out what everyone wanted and how they related to the idea.
We met over lunch, people began to talk warm to one another and after eating, we presented the underlying ideas behind Idem and Connectivity. Both Queen and Mapule had been centrally involved in the organising of a series of youth conferences that took place in Johannesburg in the first half of the ‘90s. This experience still lives very strongly in the people who took part at the time – the excitement of taking and seeing through an initiative, the relationships that formed between people and to the work they still do today. On the other hand, the younger people who have started out in professional life miss the real identity of their own person with what they do every day and were excited by the idea of working together with others in this manner.
Their seemed to be an immediate connection and friendship that sparked off between the young people from Europe and those from South Africa and at the end of the meeting everyone expressed their feeling of participating in the preparatory work.
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